Ernest Anderson (1881 - 1954)

Born 1 Feb 1881 in Kaufman, Kaufman, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lillian Vaughn (Hilliard) Anderson — married 25 Dec 1907 in Navarro, Texas, United States

Died 19 Feb 1954 at age 73 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States

Biography

Ernest was born in 1881 to William Anderson and Emily Muckleroy in Kaufman, Texas.

Ernest earned the following degrees:

• AB, Trinity College in San Antonio
• BS 1903 & MS 1905, University of Texas in Austin
• PhD 1909 Chemistry, University of Chicago with John Ulric Nef for a thesis titled "The Action of Fehling's Solution on d-Galactose"^[1]

In 1907, Ernest married Lillian Hillard. They had at least two children.

In 1912, they moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Ernest taught chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now Univ. Mass. Amherst).

In 1917, they moved to South Africa, where Ernest was an Assistant Professor at the University of the Transvall.

In 1920, they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Ernest was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska.

In 1923, they moved to Tucson, Arizona, where Ernest founded the Department of Chemistry at the University of Arizona. He studied vegetable gum chemistry. He served as Professor and Head until he retired in 1952.

He passed away in 1954.

Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona) 30 May 1923, Wed, page 3

University Regents at Meeting Tuesday Name Seventeen New Faculty Members

LIST OF NEW PROFESSORS HAS NAMES OF LEADING EDUCATORS

Ernest Anderson and F. L. Ransom Here in Fall

...Professor Anderson comes to the University of Arizona next year from the University of Nebraska, where during several years he has attracted attention through his scientific attainments and gained national repute. The new faculty appointee is declared by President Marvin to be easily a leader in the country in chemistry instruction and research.

Tucson Citizen (Tucson, Arizona) 20 Feb 1954, Sat, page 4

Retired U Of A Professor Dies In Local Hospital

Dr. Ernest Anderson, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Arizona, died yesterday at a local Hospital Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Bring’s funeral home with burial to follow in Southlawn memorial park.

The family has requested that no flowers be sent but that friends make contributions to the heart fund instead.

Dr. Anderson, 73, was on the university faculty from 1923 until he retired last July 1. Well known for his chemical research work, he had published some 40 scientific works and had won national tlonal recognition for his studies in carbohydrates. He was connected in a research capacity with the Carnegie Institute, the University of Wisconsin and the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis. For several years he had a Carnegie foundation grant for wood pulp study.

He helped to establish chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honorary societies on the campus and was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the American Chemical society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which he was a fellow. In 1950 he was made honorary member of the Phi Lambda Upsilon national honorary chemical society.

Born at Kaufman, Tex., he attended Trinity college and received his master's degree from the University of Texas, his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago. Before coming to Arizona he taught at the Massachusetts Agricultural college, the University of South Africa in Pretoria, and the University of Nebraska.

He leaves his wife, Lillian; two sons, Ernest and Frank, and three granddaughters of Phoenix. [services not transcribed]

List of Publications

1. Ernest Anderson, Lila Sands, Some Plant Gums of the Southwestern U. S., Am. J. Pharm., 97, 589 (1925) [Sands first publication at University of Arizona as an assistant professor]
2. Ernest Anderson, Lila Sands, The Preparation of l-Arabinose from Mesquite Gum, Ind. Eng. Chem., 17, 1257 (1925)
3. Ernest Anderson, Lila Sands, The Composition of Mesquite Gum; The Isolation of d-Galactose and l-Arabinose, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1926, 48 (12), pp. 3172–3177
4. Ernest Anderson, Lila Sands, l-Arabinose, Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 1, p.67 (1941); Vol. 8, p.18 (1928)

Sources

1. ↑ 1921 Register of Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Chicago

• 1907 Texas Marriage Record for Ernest Anderson and Lillian Vaughn Hillard
• Findagrave profile